Getting out of bondage

A lot of people today are living on the other side of life, with so much unhapiness; they wonder most times what could be the cause of their miserable life and the way out. The enemy to battle with is not without but within, if only we can look within and deal with ourselves, then we will be free. This book is an expository of man's ways, fault and correction. Read it to be wise.

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GETTING

OUT OF

BONDAGE

By Ibrahim Badmus

CONTENTS

LIBERTY
8

BONDAGE
11

BONDAGE OF LYING
19

BONDAGE OF SMOKING
21

BONDAGE OF ALCOHOLISM
26

BONDAGE OF FORNICATION &
ADULTERY 29

BONDAGE OF HOMOSEXUALITY
32

BONDAGE OF MASTURBATION
35

BONDAGE OF OCCULTISM
38

MARITAL BONDAGE
40

MINISTERIAL BONDAGE
42

GET OUT OF IT
45

HERE HE COMES
52

FOREWORD

Perhaps the greatest challenge to mankind with respect to bondage
is his penchant for self destruction. Man's ultimate failing and
fall is epitomized by his failure to learn from history.

The word "HISTORY" appears to be a merger of two words HIS and
STORY; to date therefore, man is imprisoned by nothing greater
than ignorance of his own story.

The bible, "the perfect law of liberty" (James 1:25) states and I
quote "my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge:
because thou has rejected knowledge, I will also reject
thee, that thou shall be no priest to me, seeing thou has
forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children."
(Hosea 4:6).

It is imperative upon me by His grace to conclude that our
willful and rebellious thoughts, dispositions and actions,
encouraged by the unwholesome alliance of conspiracy with the
devil is responsible for the chaotic, hopeless and desperate
situation into which our world; once a paradise now bears
semblance with hell.

One of many parables of our lord Jesus, (The Good Samaritan)
offers a graphic downward slopping curve of a Youngman who left
Jerusalem for Jericho and ended up in the captivity of thieves
(agents of Satan); but for the intervention of "The Truth" (Jesus
the new man or Second Adam) it would have been all over for him.

Reader, the dynamics of the revelations of the foregoing is the
thrust of this timely and must read contribution of our
brother's. You will do yourself a world of good when you heed and
live by the revelations from the word of God as expounded in this
book (Rev 1:3).

This book also offers the getaway or liberty plan and a cursory
look at the following scriptures:

v "Buy the truth, and sell it not; wisdom, and
instructions and understanding."(Proverbs 23:23);

v "I am the way, the truth and the life: no man
cometh unto the Father, but by me(John 14:6);

v "and ye shall know the truth, and the truth
shall make you free(John 8:32) and

v "He that committeth sin is of the devil; for
the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the purpose
the son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of
the devil."(1John 3:8)

These all capture the very essence of this work of faith.

Again, just as man was self willed unto bondage he can also elect
to be exercised unto liberty (Isaiah 52:1-3; Luke 15:17-24 &
2Chronicles 7:14).

Blind Bartimaeus had a glimmer of hope to be delivered from
eternal darkness and seized it with every dint of will power left
in him; even in the face of religious trickery by the devil who
tried to silence him.

We conclude this endorsement on a note, both of caution and
encouragement as contained in the following: (Romans 1:16-30,
2Corinthians 5:11).

To my brother Ibrahim Badmus and family is this earnest prayer:
the apostle Paul went up by revelation, Peter and John by
prayers, even so shall you soar with wings as the eagles, you
shall run and not be weary, you shall walk and not faint, Amen.

Shalom!

Deacon Olurantimi Olusegun

Parish Pastor:

RCCG (Destiny Sanctuary, Turin, Italy)

DEDICATION

I dedicate this book to the Holy
Spirit who inspired me

AuthorIbrahim Badmus

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THANKSGIVING

Special thanks
to the Holy Spirit for the inspiration and guidance, to my
lovely wife and daughter Joy. Pastor and Mrs. David Darley for
their encouragement, to every member of prayer band and also
evangelism units of The Redeemed Christian Church Of God, Court
of His Majesty, Ipaja Lagos Nigeria.

I want to
thank my very good friend who is my father in-law Engineer
Samuel Olusola Adeolu and his wonderful wife Mrs. Adewunmi
Adeolu. A special thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Biodun Taiwo for their
love and great support in every aspect of this book. Deacon
Segun Oluwarantimi for his spiritual, financial support and
Deacon Supo Gbadegesin a wonderful spiritual father. Pastor
Fred Odekhian and his lovely wife Mrs. Helen Odekhian cannot be
forgotten for their great love and mentorship. And I also say a
big thank you to all faithful ministers of God.

I can never
forget my wonderful parents for their love for me. Mum, Dad, I
love you both.

PREFACE

One beautiful
Sunday morning on the 20th day of September 2008,
apparently eleven days to the 48th celebration of
Nigeria's Independence, I felt greatly pressed to study the
word and pray for a while, so I went aside into the prayer room
of our local church to be alone; not quite long after I had
opened my Bible and started reading, I suddenly felt a great
impression upon my heart to write a book on "Getting out of
Bondage", so I obeyed the Spirit of God though at that
point I didn't have an idea what it was going to be
like.

A lot of
people today are living on the other side of life, with so much
unhappiness; they wonder most times what could be the cause of
their misery and the way out of it. The enemy to battle with is
not without but within, if only we can look within and deal
with ourselves, then we will be free. This book is an
expository of man's ways, faults and corrections. Read it to be
wise.

Ibrahim
Badmus

7th
May 2009

Chapter One

Introduction

Liberty

The greatest gift God has ever
given man is liberty i.e. the freedom and the right to do
whatever he wants without asking for permission or being afraid
of authority; we could also say it is the freedom to act or
believe without being stopped by unnecessary forces.

Even the scriptures say
"Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ
hath made us free and be not entangled again with the yoke of
bondage" Galatian5:1. The essence of the death of
Christ on the cross is to give us liberty; i.e. for us to be
free from darkness and bondage. Man himself loves being free,
liberty is the right of every man, God created man to be free
and make choices on his own, He (God) never imposes anything on
man, it is true that there are commandments but God never made
it forceful. "I call heaven and earth to record this
day..... choose life that both thou and thy seed may
live" Deutoronomy30:19

The word "choose"
signifies choice i.e. acting freely. His desire and passion for
us is that we might live life beautifully without having to
suffer.

When I was much younger it got to
a time in my teenage years that I felt I was old enough to take
decisions on my own; I never wanted to be ordered around
anymore, I didn't always like it when I was being called and
given ten commandments of do's and don'ts; I just wanted to be
free, though I could have been wrong in my thoughts and actions
then. But what I'm trying to make us understand is that
everyone wants to be free, Liberty, Liberty, Liberty; everyone
is tired of being caged either in a work place or a particular
environment; animals are seeking freedom, nations got their
independence and are still looking for how to make life
better.

October 1 1960 was a wonderful
day for Nigeria, on July 4 1776 America claimed her
independence from Britain and Democracy was born; 22nd
September 1878 Bulgaria got her independence from Ottoman
Empire. Can you see? Everybody loves it. When you have liberty
you will know, it can be felt, you are unhindered, unstoppable,
limitless.

I once had a friend who had a
bird he had been keeping in a small cage for a very long time,
one morning he wanted to feed the caged bird as he usually did
every morning; but on getting to the cage, the bird looked so
dull and sluggish in its actions; so my friend thought perhaps
the little creature was sick and needed attention; he opened
the cage and brought out the poor caged bird, but suddenly the
bird shook itself and flew up escaping.

We watched the bird land upon an
electric cable high above, spread its wings sideways, chirped
aloud, and after sometime it flew away.

My friend and I both looked at
ourselves eyeball to eyeball and laughed, though he was
disappointed afterwards.

Later that day I considered the
actions of that bird,

·It looked very sick and dull
because of the limitations. (The bars)

·As soon as it got out of the
cage, it took the advantage and flew away.

·When it landed on the wire, it
spread the two wings very wide expressing its liberty.

Though my friend got unhappy and
disappointed, but the most important lesson I learnt was that
the little creature gained liberty that day. Liberty! Every
creature is looking for it, and every creature deserves it.
Liberty is a God given right to every creature, especially man,
Satan knows this and that is why he will do anything to take it
away from you with subtlety.

Denial of liberty is a weapon
used by the government of any land to punish any offender, for
example if anybody breaks or violates the rules and regulations
of the society, and if the offence is highly grievous, the
judiciary after judging the person by law might decide to
punish the person by simply taking the liberty away; and this
is done by putting the person behind bars for a period of
time.

This means you can't do anything
again at your own discretion, you can't drink when you want to,
can't eat when and what you want, can't visit your family or
loved ones anytime you want, but you are only restricted to a
particular set of rules and regulations and most times these
rules are not convenient.

A lot of people today are not
enjoying that God given liberty, some are not in prison
physically but in their minds or spiritually are trapped and
are crying day and night for help. God did not make a mistake
neither was he cruel when he told Adam of the tree he was to
eat and the tree he was not to feed on Genesis2:16-17,

He (God) made Adam realize their
importance but never took the tree of good and evil away from
the garden. He gave Adam and Eve free will, he related with
them as friends, and in every of their discussions you could
sense liberty or free will being expressed. I have seen a lot
of people who are wealthy but greatly unhappy, married but
disappointed, educated but frustrated, highly placed but
sorrowful. Many who are even Christians today have been tied
down by religious unbiblical rules and are living life
miserably.

I know of a man that was always
afraid of the dark, anytime night came fear would set in; I
have met another person that was always afraid to go to bed
because of nightmare. A Lot of people have lost their sense of
liberty, they don't understand how to go about life again and
have therefore submitted to fate.

God knows what you are going
through and wants to help you out; though you and I are
separated by miles, but the Holy Spirit is omnipresent.

Your life has been given to you
by God, and coupled with that is liberty, and if you are not
experiencing it, then something is wrong somewhere which needs
to be addressed. I pray this book "Getting out of
Bondage" will be used by the Holy Spirit to set us free and
help us mend our ways so that we can enjoy life beautifully the
way the Almighty God has designed it. You are not supposed to
be living in fear, doubt, hatred curses, disappointment,
afflictions etc. but live in the will and perfect plan of God;
thank God you came across a book like this, and I pray the Holy
Spirit will reveal every letter of this book to you more than
what is written therein Amen.

Chapter Two

Bondage

The children of Israel can easily
explain to you what bondage is, their experience in Egypt was
very bitter, life was filled with agony for them as they
travailed under the cruel ruler-ship of Pharaoh. Brother Aaron
who later became the spokesman of Moses had no idea of how to
break loose from the hard task, Joshua was just there, limited
and oppressed , Caleb was nowhere to be found , and Miriam also
had taken fate or perhaps she thought it would be over one
day.

The most interesting thing about
bondage is that, some are self imposed while others are
forcefully imposed. The children of Israel never liked it, it
was a thorn in their flesh, they cried day and night for help
that God had to testify to Moses that " I have surely
seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have
heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know
their sorrows;" Exodus 3:7.

Imagine being under that
condition for four hundred and thirty years. So through their
experience we can define bondage as 'A bond that is of
age'.

Bond itself according to the
dictionary means something that limits your freedom and
prevents you from doing what you want. While age means the
number of years someone has lived or something has existed. So
if we put the two together again we could say bond-age is
something that limits your freedom, prevents you from doing
what you want and has persisted for many years.

There are some bondages that are
long-term and there some that are short-term, depending on the
consciousness of the person involved and also how informed the
person involved is. There are some set of people in bondage but
are ignorant of the fact, or they see nothing wrong with it;
there are some bondages we call habits, there are some we refer
to as pleasure, for example, smoking and drinking alcohol are
called habits or pleasure to some people, but in the real sense
they are bondages. We shall talk more on such and many more in
the next chapters.

Bondages have attributes, they
have patterns of operation, and their characteristics are what
we want to explain fully according to the scriptures. We shall
first take a case study of the children of Israel in Egypt to
explain to us some things about the operations of
bondage.

1.Bondage does not respect
personality -

Exodus1:7

"And the children of
Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and
multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled
with them."

Anybody can go or be thrown into
a state of bondage if care is not properly taken, in the verse
of the scripture written above, the children of Israel had
grown and had become mighty, not just being mighty, but the
Bible says "waxed exceeding mighty", they had become fruitful,
increased abundantly and multiplied. There is something I know
too well about God, i.e. He (God) doesn't paint unrealistic
pictures, when God tells you something, you can put it in the
bank. But despite their personality they were still being put
under bondage by Pharaoh.

Act12:1-7

1. Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his
hands to vex certain of the church.

2. And he killed James the brother of John with the
sword.

3. And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded
further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened
bread.)

4. And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison,
and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him;
intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.

5. Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was
made without ceasing of the church unto God for him.

6. And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same
night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two
chains: and the keepers before the door kept the
prison.

7. And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and
a light shined in the prison: and he smote Peter on the side,
and raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains
fell off from his hands."

Peter is another example we need
to talk about, this is someone that had been with Christ
throughout his ministry, Jesus had used him to wrought
miracles, signs and wonders among the people; on the day of
Pentecost after the baptism of the Holy Ghost, he preached and
about three thousand people believed and were added unto the
church; a person that was well respected among his people. But
in chapter 12 of the book of acts he was thrown behind bars
like a common man, and he gave everything up to fate, instead
of praying he was sleeping.

He was put in bondage, and task
masters was set over his life, he wasn't praying, nor singing
praises like Paul and Silas (Act16:25), but just slept off that
the angel had to smite him. Dear reader, bondage does not
respect personality, and this means we must all be sober and be
watchful (1peter5:8).

A man of God once told us he was
a wife beater, and that was his own bondage in which Satan had
bound him. And anytime he came to church he would preach
wonderfully and souls would be converted to Christ. The wife
never told anyone, but had taken it to be part of the ups and
downs of marriage. The man of God has a son named Samson who is
the youngest among the children, but Samson took after the
father in attitude.

When God wanted to expose and
deliver the man of God from the bondage of wife beating, he
used Samson his son to achieve his aim.

One day some pastor friends came
visiting and they were in the sitting room having a meeting.
Suddenly Samson started his bullying attitude again with Tracey
his immediate elder sister, and in that struggle Samson yelled
at Tracey saying "if you don't watch it I will kick you the
way Dad kicks Mum", at this utterance the whole apartment
became silent, pastors looked at the man of God, looked at the
children with great astonishment; the man of God burst into
tears and confessed to his colleagues that it was true.

So instead of continuing with the
meeting, they called the family together and prayed with them.
Imagine the hierarchy, the personality of that man of God,
bondage doesn't respect anyone, we are the ones that will be
careful and be watchful.

2.Bondage is a thief-

Exodus1:9

"And he said unto
his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are
more and mightier than we:

John10:10

The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and
to destroy:

If you are satisfied with what
you have, you will not covet what belongs to someone else or to
even think of having it at all to yourself. Pharaoh saw how
great the Israelite had become, though he was afraid they could
join to other nations and take over their land, but he coveted
their wealth, properties etc. So all he had to do was to steal
what they used in bringing that wealth to reality; i.e. their
time and energy.

Just as we have said earlier that
bondage limits a person, and in that limitation, precious time
is wasted, a lot of delays will be experienced, and because of
my own experience in life I define delay as a loss of time
between the starting point and the finishing point.

Peter could have done some other
things or won more souls with the time he spent in the prison.
The bars limited him, the quaternion of soldiers stood as
taskmasters, and seeing all these, he gave up.

When we were much younger we had
some friends who believed going to the university was a waste
of time, they believed someday luck would just shine on them
and they would become millionaires. I didn't believe in that
anyway, the Bible even said "study to shew thyself
approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed but
rightly dividing the word of truth. 2Timothy2:15 while
they were held bound in their ungodly belief, I was studying to
show myself approved unto wealth from God so that I would not
bury my head in shame later in life.

Till today they are still waiting
for that luck in serious suffering. I pray God will deliver
their minds from that kind of bondage. The children of Israel
were also supposed to spend four hundred years in Egypt as
spoken by God (Genesis15:13), but they ended up spending four
hundred and thirty years (Exodus16:2-3).

3It takes two to conspire to
put one in bondage. e.g. 'Taskmaster and probably
you'-

"Come on, let us
deal wisely with them…" Exodus1:10

It takes two or more people to
conspire; the word conspiracy means a secret plan by two or
more people to do something that is harmful and illegal.
Pharaoh called his subject and said "come let
us", God called the host of heaven and said "Let
us make man in our image"Genesis1:2, though that was
not evil. Before anything good or evil can be done or take
place, there has to be an agreement either in the evil kingdom
or Godly kingdom.

Although Pharaoh planned with his
subjects to put them in bondage, it is also possible to make an
agreement with a person to put him or her in bondage. And this
is what I earlier called self imposed bondage, a person that
got himself involved in marijuana is a self imposed bondage,
drinking alcohol is a self imposed bondage, fornication and
adultery are self imposed bondages. Etc

Proverbs1:10-16

"10. My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou
not.

11. If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood,
let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

12. Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole,
as those that go down into the pit:

15. My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain
thy foot from their path:

16. For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed
blood.

The Bible also says
"Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived
thereby is not wise. Proverbs20:1

There are many people today that
are in bondage to drugs, alcohol etc because they consented to
the offer, they had the right to say no, the power to reject
the evil arrangement was in them, but they just could not and
found themselves in it, and today are serious drunkards; they
promised themselves several times never to take it again, made
new year resolutions, but could not just stop. They kept on
doing it.

Before you find yourself in any
bondage or mess, Satan would have made an introduction to you
just like he made to Jesus, showing him all the glory of the
world promising to give him all if he could bow to
him.Mathew4:8-9. I pray you will be able to say "Get thee
hence, Satan for it is written, thou shalt worship the Lord thy
God, and him only shalt thou serve; as Jesus said in
Mathew4:10.

There was this terrible
experience I had in my university days, a friend of mine walked
up to me and asked me to please make love to her claiming she
loved me so much; I felt so much embarrassed and disgusted at
the request. What the devil tried doing was to seek my consent
to put me in bondage, thank God I was able to say no. If had
consented I would have been thrown into the bondage of
fornication, and that could have eventually ruined my life and
ministry, and perhaps I would not be writing this book today.
Remember when folks come to you luring you into ungodly
attitude; just say "Get thee behind me
Satan".

4. Bondage brings bitterness
of heart-

Exodus 1:14

"And they made their
lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and
in

all manner of service in the field: all their service,
wherein they made them serve, was with rigor."

No matter how strong you might
be, when you fall into the state of bondage you will be
unhappy, or if we have to rightly put it, one will be thrown
into the state of bitterness. The word bitterness came from the
word bitter, which means full of anger, jealousy and unhappy
feelings because you think you have been badly treated or that
unfair things have happened to you. The children of Israel were
scourged, molested, afflicted for no just cause, and because of
this they were constantly unhappy.

The cruel Egyptians didn't care
if they lived or not, what they cared about was their daily
portion of work being accomplished. What can bring bitterness
to a man than to watch his son being thrown into a river to
feed the crocodiles and fishes? Exodus1:22

Ooh! What a sorry sight it was on
that bitter day, In Ramah was there a voice heard, lamentation,
and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be
comforted, because they are not. Mathew2:18. I have seen a
woman lost her baby, she wept and could not be comforted, she
cried and stripped herself naked, and her nakedness did not
matter to her anymore, but wept on and on.

My brother and I grew up without
our mother, so our step mother raised us up; we noticed that
there was nothing we did that was ever right before her, and
for every little mistake she would spank us as if we had robbed
a bank. With these actions of hers we hated her like hell;
sometimes I wished she was dead. And so for twenty years we
lived under this torment; and this made me to always nag at
every little issue. Even when I became a Christian I still had
that bitterness in me, and after I got married, I still nagged
over little issues with my wife and would make her unhappy. One
day it dawned on me that the bitterness of yesteryears was
still in me, so prayerfully my wife and I started dealing with
it, and thank God I'm much better. Bondage doesn't respect any
man, try as much as possible to stay out of it.

5.Bondage determine what a man
does-

Luke13:10-13

"10. And he was
teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath.

11. And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of
infirmity eighteen years, and was

bowed together, and could in no wise lift up
herself.

12. And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and
said unto her, Woman, thou art

loosed from thine infirmity.

13. And he laid his hands on her: and immediately she
was made straight, and glorified

God."

The scriptures above spoke about
a woman who had a spirit of infirmity for eighteen years which
also made her bent; she could not raise her head in anyway. She
was forced to be humble not by God but by an unclean spirit
that held her in bondage. It was not even her that ran or
called Jesus just as blind Bartimeaus did (Mark10:46-47), she
could not see anything good passing because she was bent, her
two eye balls were always faced down, it was Jesus that saw her
and called for her, spoke into her life, laid hands upon her
and that was the end of her bondage.

She could not determine what she
wanted to see, the bondage of infirmity in her dictated to her
what she was supposed to see. She could not look up to God in
prayer again, the Bible says "My voice shalt thou hear in
the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct myprayer
unto thee, and will look up." Psalm5:3, all she
did was to go about sorrowful and bent.

I want us to consider another
character in the scriptures:-

John5:1-6

1. After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus
went up to Jerusalem.

2. Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool,
which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five
porches.

3. In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of
blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the
water.

4. For an angel went down at a certain season into the
pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the
troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever
disease he had.

5. And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity
thirty and eight years.

6. When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now
a long time in that case , he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made
whole?

This is also the story of a man
who had an infirmity for thirty eight years and was lying down
waiting for the moving of the water at the pool of Bethesda
(House of mercy) to be healed of his infirmity. He could not
move effectively by himself, he had to be taken to the toilet,
bathroom etc. Any time the angel came to move the water;
someone else would quickly get into the troubled water and his
miracle would be transferred. He was in bondage, and that
bondage determined his movement; and due to the fact that the
man lay down, he could not see Jesus passing by, and perhaps
his heart was filled with sorrow because he had missed the
miracle that year.